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Upanishads : " The Cream of Vedas"
Vedanta ( Veda +anta i.e; the end of Vedas ) as the literal meaning connotes comprises the philosophical portion of Vedas, called the Upanishads.
Of about 280 Upanishads unearthed so far, 108 have been accepted as authorised texts , and out of them have been commented upon by great Acharyas lika Sri Sankaracharya , Sri Ramanjacharya, Sri Madhavacharya and thus are classified as major.

ISAVASYA UPANISHAD : - Mantram -2.

ISAVASYA UPANISHAD :or VAJASANEYI SAMHITA UPANISHAD Mantram-2.Discussion-5. "Alone ( eva), ( kurvam eve ), ( karmani eva), ........Alone ( eva) :- This term adds power and strength in its usage.It must be read along with all the words in the first line of the Mantram.By doing verily ( kurvan eve ) , work verily ( karmani eva), a full hundred years verily ( satagm samah eva ).The force of the different statements have been supremely enhanced by this reinforcement; such usages are common in Samskrtam.Thus, the Upanishads have glorified sweat and toil to the highest pinnacles of recognition as service.The "dignity of labour consists in service," is a fact nowhere else so openly declared and so religiously glorified as in the 'Hindu' scriptures.Dedicated and noble work alone can polish the "Animal-Man" to a state of true culture and right discipline.To those who know what it is, work is not a slavery or a drudgery, but it is the "catani " ( Condiment consumed with meals to add flavour and taste to food ... ) to life.But when dissipated and demoralised members of a generation have,in their misconstrued enthusiasm, fallen off their track into a disastrous wreckage, they tumble down into the pits of "more wages and less hours of work !"To them even "no work and all money" (example : kerala trade union head load workers "NOKKU KOOLI" ) would still be only a state of terrible and agonising discontentment !!Man is not born to revel in idleness.Nature will whip the 'tamasic' on to the road of right or wrong activity ( rajas ), and thereby evolve him steadily to ( sattva ), a stateof joy with "activity" in "inactivity", which we earlier mentioned as "unactivity".Next : Discussion- 6. "evam".......To be continued ....

Mantram-6.
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Esa Sarvesvara esa sarvajna eso-'ntaryamy-esa
yonith sarvasya prabha-vapyayau hi bhutanam.
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word by meaning : -
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esah - this one;
sarvesvarah - is the ruler of all;
easah sarvahnah - this ( is ) Omniscient;
esah antaryami - this ( is ) all Knower;
easah yonih - this ( is ) the Source;
sarvasya - of all;
prabhava apyayau - origin and dissolution;
hi - verily;
bhutanam - of all beings.
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The sum of Mantram : -
"This is the Lord of all, this is the Knower of all, this is the inner Controller, this is the Source of all.
And, this is that from which all things originate and in which they finally dissolve themselves."
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